Companies of the early 20th century would often include collectible cards with their foodstuffs and tobacco smokes. The New York Public Library has an extensive collection of these cigarette cards available for viewing online, including many from a series by Max Cigarettes called This Age of Power and Wonder. This series from 1935-38 includes predictions of robot servants, spaceships, live television from exotic locations, and ubiquitous airports atop city high rises. Somewhat ironically for a cigarette manufacturer, card number six in this series of 250 predicted great advances in the treatment of cancer.

While the amphibious vehicle looks like a very crude version of the amtracks used only a few years later in World War II. OTOH, except for the "Ducks" (DUKW) used in the Wisconsin Dells, these amphibious vehicles don't seem to have made it into civilian use.